Black Box
Black Box only starts to matter once you have already won the reactor fight and still have enough left to get home.
District Officer's Portable Safe is a large noteworthy valuable worth 1000 Crowns, so it only deserves cargo space when the route home already looks safe.
District Officer's Portable Safe is loot you bring home for money, not loot that saves a messy run. A 1000-Crown payout is big enough to care about, but the large slot matters too. If the Trampler still needs fuel, repairs, or ammo to make it out, that space is better spent on staying alive. Once the route home already looks under control, the safe turns into one of the cleaner big-ticket pickups in this tier.
You find it through valuable-loot routes, then either pawn it for 1000 Crowns or convert it into Valuable Papers at Utility Workbench T1.
Black Box only starts to matter once you have already won the reactor fight and still have enough left to get home.
Crowns are the main spendable currency, so they matter whenever you need shop restocks, tech tree progress, or a cleaner next raid.
Raw Aurogen Crystal is worth grabbing when your run can survive the health drain and you already need it for crowns, tech-tree progress, or crystal recipes.
The safe starts making sense once leaving already looks realistic. At that point, one large slot for 1000 Crowns is a fair trade.
This is still dead weight during a failing extraction. If the large slot crowds out repair kits, shells, or fuel that keep the Trampler moving, the 1000-Crown upside disappears.
Yes, when the crew has enough supplies to extract and wants a large-slot payout item worth 1000 Crowns.
It loses priority when fuel, healing, repairs, or matching ammo are still missing for the route home.